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CHIEF 💭 @0xchieff

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EVERYONE HAS THE HERMES INSTALL GUIDE. ALMOST NOBODY RUNS THE OTHER 90%. i read every hermes builder on the timeline this week. the pattern is brutal: most people run a frontier agent like a search box. one prompt in, one answer out. that's level 1 of a 7-level tool. here's the 90% they skip ⬇️ → the context tax nobody measures. ~11,700 tokens are gone before you type a word - most of it system prompt + tool defs. the rule: fewer always-on tools, more on-demand skills. → stop running one mega-agent. split it into a department: scout gathers, analyst judges, briefer reports. isolated context beats one genius drowning in its own notes. → the gotchas that eat your weekend. your telegram bot sits silent? it's botfather privacy mode, on by default. /setprivacy → disable. fixed in 60 seconds. → "free isn't free." self-hosted is pre-paid, not free. but the bar collapsed: a 12B model now runs ~1000 tok/s on a $300 8GB gpu with 120k context. do the break-even math. → the skill economy is forming NOW. SKILL.md files are products. nous just ran a hermes business hackathon with NVIDIA + stripe underwriting it. read the signal. the model was never the moat. the loop is. full breakdown - the numbers, the architecture, the fixes -2 in the article 👇 not financial advice, just the field analysis. which of the 5 are you running already?

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3 months ago

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CHIEF 💭 @0xchieff

3 months ago

EVERYONE RENTS THEIR AI AGENT. THE BEST DEVS JUST STOPPED PAYING. closed agents charge you $20–200/mo and keep your memory on their servers. hermes agent does the opposite. short version ⬇️ the old way: → a chatbot wrapper locked to one api → forgets you the second you close the tab → your data lives on someone else's cloud → a monthly seat you rent forever the hermes way: → open-source, self-hosted, MIT, $0 license → persistent memory in ~/.hermes/ on YOUR box → any model you want - no lock-in → one curl command and it's running receipts, not vibes: → built by nous research (the hermes open-weight models team) - not a weekend repo → 22k → 32k+ github stars in weeks. 242 contributors. devs migrating off openclaw in droves. → 40+ built-in skills + it writes its own as it solves problems the part nobody prices in: it doesn't just do tasks - it has a learning loop. solve once → it writes a reusable SKILL. md → runs it unattended on cron while you sleep. your agent's daily work even exports as training data. this isn't "ai replaced engineers." it's one operator running a stack that used to need a team - at $0/mo. full setup - the exact 5-command install, the providers, the security model - in the article 👇 not financial advice, just the real system. what would you automate first?